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🔆An #FBI internal official use memo (Approved by the FBI's chief lawyer) has been leaked to the public, outlining the FBI's investigatory playbook for 2023.
#USA #BIDEN #FBI #Christian #WhiteSupremacy
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1. The #FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of “white supremacy,” which it believes has found a home within #Catholics who prefer the #Latin Mass.
#USA #BIDEN #FBI #Christian #WhiteSupremacy

2. An intelligence analyst within the Richmond Field Office of the #FBI released in a new finished intelligence product dated January 23, 2023, on Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVE) and their interests in “Radical-Traditionalist #Catholics or RTCs.
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3. The document assesses with “high confidence” the #FBI can mitigate the threat of Radical-Traditionalist Catholics by recruiting sources within the Catholic Church.
#USA #BIDEN #Christian #CATHOLICS #WHITESUPREMACISTS

4. Working in tandem with Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the #FBI is focusing all its efforts against "radical-traditionalist Catholics" and names "NICK FUENTES" and "THE GROYPERS" as security threats worse than Islamic and Communists.

5. The #FBI alleges that Nick Fuentes and other #Catholics in the #UnitedStates are planning ongoing #terror plots "in the next 12-24 months" to halt "abortion rights, #LGBTQ protection, affirmative action and immigration".
#USA #BIDEN #FBI #WHITESUPREMACISTS #Catholics

6. The acronym "RTC", new to many in the Domestic Counterterrorism field, comes with a footnote by the writer explaining RTCs are “typically characterized by the rejection of the Second Vatican Council.”
#USA #FBI #BIDEN #CATHOLICS #WHITESUPREMACISTS #LATIN

7. The #FBI makes an unsubstantiated claim that a preference for the Catholic Mass in Latin instead of the vernacular and a number of traditional views on other world religions can amount to an “adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and #white supremacist ideology

8. #FBI draws the important distinction between “traditional Catholics,” who simply prefer the Traditional Latin Mass and pre-Vatican II teachings, and RTCs, who espouse “more extremist ideological beliefs and violent rhetoric.”
#US #FBI #CATHOLICS #LATIN #WHITESUPREMACISTS

9. Appendix D is a direct copy of the SPLC list of “Radical Traditional Catholicism Hate Groups,” including the web address accessed. The SPLC appears to be a source for the intelligence analyst’s beliefs that RTCs exist and that they are anti-Semitic.
#USA #FBI #CATHOLICS

10. The SPLC description “hate group” states RTCs “may make up the largest single group of serious anti-semites in America.” In the intelligence world, this type of statement without any established evidence is often followed by the acronym “NFI” or “No Further Information”
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10(B) to indicate it is an unsubstantiated opinion. Additionally, SPLC states RTCs “embrace extremely conservative social ideals with respect to women.” Nothing reported by the SPLC indicates the number of adherents to this alleged ideology nor any instances of violence.
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11. The intelligence product includes endnote citations from two other sources: the far-Left online magazine Salon and the equally left-leaning The Atlantic.
#USA #FBI #CATHOLICS #CONSERVATIVES #WHITESUPREMACISTS

12. The Salon articles cited are typical of partisan click-bait writing: “Traditional Catholics and White Nationalist Groypers Forge a new Far-Right Youth Movement” and “White Nationalists Get Religion: On the Far-Right Fringe, Catholics and Racists Forge a movement.”
#FBI #USA

13. These articles were released a day apart as a series but include substantially the same information. The articles offer only circumstantial suggestions of affiliations between
#FBI #USA #CATHOLICS #VETICAN #CHRISITIAN

salon.com/2022/12/02/chr…

13(B) inflammatory figures like Milo Yiannopoulos and Nick Fuentes and a man pictured standing on the steps of a Catholic church in New York after the Dobbs decision.
#USA #FBI #CHRISITIAN #WHITESUPREMACISTS
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14. The speculative increase in RMVE interactions with RTC leads the writer to suggest mitigation strategies, including recruiting Confidential Human Sources (“source development”), tripwire, and liaison contacts.
#USA #FBI #CATHOLICS #CHRISTIAN

14(B) Tripwires and liaisons are overt contacts with trusted members of a community or an industry. They can advise law enforcement about potentially illegal activity.
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15. Due to the fact that “white supremacy” is itself a First Amendment-protected belief, to say nothing of proponents of the most established #Christian denomination in the world, the Bureau tries to cover documents like these with a caveat excusing their intrusion
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15(B) into the sacrosanct grounds of free exercise of religion and free association. In another typical intrusion into First Amendment concerns, the document implies a strategy of monitoring social media for RTC ideology in online posts.
#USA #FBI #CHRISTIANS

16. The piece concludes with the incredible leap that RMVEs or white supremacists pose a threat to use “RTC social media sites” (no examples) or “places of worship as facilitation platforms to promote violence.”
#USA #FBI #CHRISTIANS

17. This intelligence product is indicative of a permissive tolerance within the FBI for Left-leaning ideological actors who use academic-sounding rhetoric to cover a dearth of personal experience.
#USA #FBI #CHRISTIANS

18. The weaponization of the FBI against conservative Americans can be seen in the way documents like this are published and distributed. Poorly sourced and highly speculative intelligence products
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18(B) lead to opening badly articulated predicate investigations into Americans in violation of their God-given, First Amendment-protected civil liberties.

19. Nine political/faith publishing organizations are of particular note, posed in the crosshairs of the #FBI:
-Catholic Apologetics International
-Catholic Family News
-Christ or Chaos
-Culture Wars/Fidelity Press
#USA #FBI #CATHOLICS #Christians

19(B) -The Fatima Crusader
-Spirit of Chartes Committee
-The Remnant Press
-Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
-Tradition in Action
#USA #FBI #CATHOLICS #Christians

20. Summary of FBI Document : -
TARGET CHRISTIANS. TARGET ANTI-COMMUNISTS/NATIONALIASTS. TARGET WHITE PEOPLE. LATIN MASS IS WHITE SUPREMACY.
#USA #FBI #CHRISTIANS4Z